Agricola de Cologne is standing also for a broad bandwidth of dynamic curatorial contexts he is initiating in physical and virtual space, the co-curator and co-organiser of external festivals and exhibitions, the jury member of divers festivals, and not to forget the designer of a cross-platform culture.

SFC - Shoah Film Collectionis launching the new call for entries from the coming year.

Founded in 2010, SFC - Shoah Film Collection -http://sfc.engad.org - is a unique international initiativeby Wilfried Agricola de Cologne. director of Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards http://camia.newmediafest.org,addressed to young artists and filmmaker generations to deal with the topic of "collective trauma caused by totalitarism", and in special the Holocaust, by using new technologies and contemporary approaches in order to keep vivid the memory by sentitizing via art. The collection is encompassing meanwhile more than 50 outstanding works of "art & moving images" (experimental film, videoart and documentary).

A selection was presented already in 2011 in Russia, Poland and Romania, and as a result of these experiences a special event context has been created for presenting SFC -Shoah Film Collection to an audience, i.e. A Virtual Memorial - Commemorative Interventions - http://sfc.engad.org/blog/ - placing the collection of films into the context of complementary lectures, a symposion, exhibitions, artists talks, discussions and much more in order to activate the artists, as well as the audience.In 2012, the first three events took place in Latvia - "A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012" standing under the Patronage of European Parliament, in Cambodia "A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh 2012" - dedicated to the victims of the Cambodian genocide 1975-1979, and in Poland "A Virtual Memorial Warsaw 2012" - dedicated to the victims of Warsaw Ghetto - 1940-1943 - http://sfc.engad.org/blog/?page_id=322- , and also in 2013 several events are scheduled, among them "A Virtual Memorial Vilnius 2013" - including several venues in Lithuania in Sept/Oct 2013 - http://vilnius2013.a-virtual-memorial.org - standing under the Patronage of European Parliament.

In 2012, SFC - Shoah Film Collection became the founding base for the all encompassing project "CTF - Collective Trauma Film Collections" - http://ctf.engad.org - dealing with "collective trauma caused by totalitarism" world wide since there is nearly no place left on the globe whose inhabitans do no suffer from historical or most recent crimes against humanity as the can be perceived daily via the information media - The message of this initiative is - "Never More!"

Each year on occasion of the Liberation of the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz, on 27 January,SFC is releasing a new call, and now it is so far for 2013.

CTF - Collective Trauma Film Collectionsis calling for film & video works

CTF - Collective Trauma Film Collections - http://ctf.engad.org - is a worldwide unique initiative by Agricola de Cologne (director of Cologne International Videoart Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org and Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards http://camia.mediaartcologne.org) addressed to young generations of artists and filmmakers to deal with the topic of collective trauma caused by totalitarism by using new technologies and contemporary approaches in art in order to keep vivid the memory for future generations via art.

Based on two previously initiated collections, i.e. "Cambodia 1975-1979" & "SFC - Shoah Film Collections", CTF - Collective Trauma Film Collections was initiated to form the dynamic framework and living database for individual film collections dealing with specific forms of collective trauma as they can perceived in different parts on the globe under most different political, economical, social, religious and cultural conditions. There is hardly any country left on our globe where people do not suffer from the excesses of the dark side of human existence.

For presenting "CTF - Collective Trauma Film Collections", in 2012 a special event context has been created, i.e "A Virtual Memorial - Commemorative Interventions", which places the divers collections of films and videos in the context of complementary interventions like lectures, a symposion, exhibitions, artists talks, discussions and much more, in order to activate the audience, as well as the artists and filmmakers. The first three events took place in 2012 in Latvia, Cambodia and Poland, and the next events are planned in 2013 in Lithuania, Belgium and Latin America.

As an initiative, CTF would like to give the message to the world that the cause for the collective trauma, the discriminations, violence, persecutions, torture and exterminations caused by totalitarism must no happen again or continue in case of contemporary totalitarism, this is good for the genocides, the state terrorism and other crimes against humanity, like Holocaust, the Stalinism, the Cambodian genocide 1975-1879, the state terrorism of the Argentine or Chilean military dictatorships of 20th century, the Italian Fascism or any other of the countless causes for collective trauma happening in the Past or even nowadays before our very eyes in our neighbor's garden or transmitted daily via the media like press, TV and Internet. Individual trauma remains very often the basic living condition for a whole human life, as well as the collective trauma may form the psychological condition of a community or a nation for many centuries, if people do not try to overcome the trauma actively.

From the early beginning of human civilization, art was that type of medium which was transporting the individual and collective memory of Past and Present to the Future, so there is no better way for keeping vivid the memory of the collective trauma by sensitizing people via art, and no other artistic expression is more predestined to represent processes than "moving images".

CTF - Collective Trauma Film Collectionsis looking for a variety of artistic forms using the medium of video, i.e. experimental films, videoart and documentariesThe official release of the call on 1 January 2013 and the deadline of 1 July 2013 offers additionally sufficient time for creating new artworks to be submitted.

CologneOFF IX9th Cologne International Videoart Festivallaunch in September 2013

Founded in 2006, Cologne International Videoart Festival is celebrating in 2013 its 9th festival edition in sequence devoted to present and encourage the creations in the field of “art and moving images”, whereby the focus is directed to art and not to cinema.

Like previous festival editions also the new one will be aimed to travel in the context of the nomadic festival project - "CologneOFF 2013 - videoart in a global context" - around the globe to the best venues presenting the diversity in the field of “art and moving images” transported via the medium of “video”More info – http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2013_eng.pdf

CologneOFF IXhas no specific motto or topic, but refers to the general theme “memory & identity” and themes of previous festival editions like (art & the city). The official release of the call on 1 January 2013 and the deadline of 1 July 2013 offers additionally sufficient time for creating new artworks to be submitted.

CologneOFF IX is– looking for art works using video as a medium in all its variety, but for submitting only single channel videos are eligible, a hybrid type of work which can be used for different presentation forms like screening, projection and installation.– expecting new and experimental artistic approaches in transforming essential issues of human existence into the language of the “moving images”.- inviting film & video creators – to submit up to 3 videos (max duration 10 minutes, exceptions possible)) in following categories –-> (experimental) film – videoart – documentary, whereby animated and very short (60 seconds) forms are particularly encouraged